Erica. | ERIcACE& (Guthrie & Bolus). 163 
the younger elliptical or oblong, subobtuse, callous-denticulate, the 
older and lower narrow-oblong, somewhat longer and naked, all 
sulcate, round-backed, thick, leathery, rigid, smooth, 2—3 lin. long ; 
flowers corolline, or subcalycine, solitary in the axils of the leaves, 
with 3 minute bract-like leaves above and at the base of each 
pedicel ; pedicels slender, coloured, downy, 2—3 lin. long; bracts 
remote, minute, 2 infra-median, 1 nearly basal ; sepals adpressed, 
linear, thick, rigid, red, 11-14 lin. long, reaching to about the top 
of the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate-campanulate, scarcely con- 
tracted at the throat at full maturity, subtetragonous, thick, sub- 
fleshy, rosy, 11 lin. long; segments spreading, ovate, from } of the 
tube in length to nearly equal to it; filaments lanceolate ; anthers 
subexserted or just manifest, subterminal, oblong, tapering to the 
dorsal margin; cells bipartite, approximate, dark-coloured, about 
2 lin. long, denticulate at the base, teeth short, squarrose ; pore less 
than 1 the length of the cell; style exserted ; stigma small, capitel- 
late ; ovary glabrous. 
Coast Reaton: Bredasdorp Div.; hills near Mier Kraal, 300 ft., Schlechter, 
10526 ! 
This bears some resemblance to E. curtophylla. 
217. E. capillaris (Bartl. in Linnea, vii. 647); erect, entirely 
glabrous, 6-12 in. high; branches numerous, erect, corymbose : 
leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, slender, linear, acute, straight, 1-1} 
lin. long ; flowers axillary, pseudo-racemose towards the ends of the 
branches ; pedicels slender, about | lin. long ; bracts remote, small, 
sometimes one or more wanting ; sepals linear-lanceolate, sulcate, 
glabrous or ciliate, foliaceous, rigid, about $ lin, long; corolla tubular- 
eampanulate or obconie-campanulate, commonly widened to the 
mouth, rarely equal, subtetragonous, 1+ lin. long ; segments spread- 
ing, 1-1 the length of the tube ; anthers exserted, lateral, ov 
oblong, bipartite, slightly curved, pale brown, from under } vk 
to nearly 2 lin. long, muticous ; pore about 1 the length of the cell ; 
style exserted, slender ; stigma capitellate ; ovary glabrous. 
elliptic, i nm shorter 
, Bolus); leaves oblong or elliptic, incurved, often sh 
Plage nie eu Bu corolla somewhat shorter and broader than in the 
type ; flowers more closely crowded at the ends of the branches; anthers less 
than 4 lin. long, more curved. 4 
va 1; pnlietel (Bolus); habit stronger and somewhat taller, 1-14 ft. high, 
general colour ashy-grey ; branches esse a wit en ccntave chore 
and petioles longer, oblong to elliptical, thick and ‘ 
éonivax below, the younger ciliate, 1-14 lin. long; inflorescence mostly lateral 
but sometimes also terminal ; anthers curved as in var. 8 and about as long, but 
somewhat broader. 
i i ! Cape Flats, 
0) : Div.; plains near Wynberg, Niven, 10! Cape E 
Bone siete <a De Bolus, 4614! Harvey, 161! Var. 8: Caledon 
Div. ; Klein River, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 7607 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 300 ft., 
Schlechter, 700! y: Ceres Div. Mountains near Klein Vlei, in the 
_ Centrat Reason: Var. ap 
Cold Bokkeveld, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 10056 ! 
The type is a neat little shrub, very uniform in character. Until quite lately 
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